(originally caught by Paul Larson <plars@austin.ibm.com>)

	Patch fixes a couple of idiotic bugs in notify_change() (my
fault).  Unary operations have higher priority than binary ones, so
if (!valid & ATTR_MODE) doesn't do the right thing.  I plead temporary
braindamage...

The below patch on 2.5.12 takes the 'dbench 32' throughput on a
1024 megabyte machine from 35 megs/sec up to 125 megs/sec.
That's on the second run.  The first run is much slower because
the ext2 bitmaps aren't in cache.

Presumably, s/60/80/ will take it even higher.

Remove bogus BUG_ON().  On UP kernels spinlocks become NOPs so it is
not possible to test the state of a lock.

Patch to the aha152x driver, which makes it work under 2.5.

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Drop back to eieio in spinlocks for the moment due to performance
issues of sync on power3

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Pretty boring stuff.  Four compile fixes for 2.5.12.

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If snd-pcm.o is selected built-in, snd-timer.o needs to be get built-in
as well, since snd-pcm.o needs snd-timer.o's symbols.

Remove description of long obsolete (pre-2.4) Makefiles and describe the
current system.

Get rid of long obsolete (and unused) MOD_IN_SUBDIRS and unnecessary
MOD_DIRS variable.

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block_flushpage() used to be a macro which pointed at the
exported discard_bh_page().  I turned block_flushpage() into
a real function but forgot the export.

path_lookup() is no longer an inline function, and needs to be exported
for jffs2, nfsd and af_unix to load as modules.

Douglas Gilbert's SCSI cleanups

This patch has the last bit of Justin Gibb's patch
described in:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsi&m=101200279101550&w=2
[this bit for the sd driver]

There is also a major code cleanup of the sd driver with
documentation headers added and a few obvious bugs fixed
described in:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsi&m=101798201714399&w=2
I did this cleanup.

Justin's patch has been in Dave's tree for several months while
my code cleanup patch has been there since 2.5.9-dj1 .

The attachment is part of a patch from Justin Gibbs
described in:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsi&m=101200279101550&w=2

The original patch was targeted at lk 2.4 and Dave forwarded
ported it into 2.5. Other bits (e.g. sr) have already found
there way into your tree. One bit in the sd driver will be
included in my following patch.

	Missing checks added...

 - switch blk_get_ra_pages() to struct block_device *, move its use
   from bdget() to do_open().

 - kill bread()/getblk()/get_hash_table() (kdev_t-using wrappers; struct
   block_device * counterparts are obviously still alive).

 - put block size in bdev->bd_block_size, make do_open() and
   check_partition() to set it (see above), switch set_blocksize() and
   block_size() to use of ->bd_block_size.  Remove manipulations with
   blksize_size[] from drivers, remove blksize_size[] itself.

 - switch block_size() to struct block_device *.

 - switch set_blocksize() to struct block_device *.

 - preliminary cleanups: make sure that swapoff restores original block
   size, kill set_blocksize() (and use of __bread()) in multipath.c,
   reorder opening device and finding its block size in mtdblock.c.

Also introduce new maintainer.

etherh acorn net driver, mtdblock_ro mtd driver, and
sym 2 scsi driver.

1) removes calls to check_region 
2) checks the result of request_region calls
3) calls release_region where necessary in case of driver initialisation error 

1) removes calls to check_region 
2) checks the result of request_region